A pavilion, designed by Norwegian firm Snøhetta and marking the entrance to New York’s 9/11 Memorial Museum has been completed and has received a special dedication from US President Barack Obama.
The building stands on Memorial plaza – the area of lower Manhattan where on 11 September 2001, two planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade centre, destroying both buildings and killing nearly 3,000 people.
Containing actual Snøhetta’s angular glass and steel building stands atop a larger, underground museum designed by New York firm Davis Brody Bond.
The exterior of the building is a mix of transparent, reflective and striped surfaces, which the architects say are designed to allow people to look down into the spaces below, and it also houses two of the original structural columns rescued from the remains of the twin towers.
The National September 11 Memorial Museum and Pavilion opens to the public on 21 May.
